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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

bind

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a binding agreement (=an official agreement that must be obeyed)

▪ Lawyers are in the process of drafting a legally binding agreement between both parties

a binding obligation (=something that you must legally do, especially because of an agreement)

▪ These clauses are legally binding obligations on both parties.

a flight is bound for London/New York etc (=it is going there)

▪ Johnson boarded a flight bound for Caracas.

be bound by a vow (=to have promised seriously to do something)

▪ She told him she was bound by a vow not to tell any other person.

be bound by an agreement (=have to obey the conditions of an official agreement)

▪ India is bound by the agreements signed under the World Trade Organisation.

be bound by an oath (=have sworn an oath)

▪ These chiefs were bound to him by oaths of loyalty.

be bound by rules (=have to obey them)

▪ Solicitors are bound by strict rules that regulate their professional conduct.

be/feel honour bound to do sth (=feel that you should do something, because it is morally right or your duty to do it)

▪ My father felt honour bound to help his sister.

binding arbitration

▪ Both sides in the dispute have agreed to binding arbitration.

bound and gagged (=tied up and with something over their mouth that stops them speaking)

▪ He left his victim bound and gagged .

bound to happen

▪ This was bound to happen sooner or later.

double bind

legally binding

▪ a legally binding agreement

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

inextricably

▪ In other words, Ahab fails to realize that good and evil are inextricably bound together and can not be separated.

legally

▪ Talks resume next week in Bonn on legally binding emission reduction targets that Washington has rejected.

▪ Janzen offers something besides going to court: mediation and arbitration services that are just as legally binding.

▪ Home helps felt that they are being legally bound not to care!

▪ The goal is to write a legally binding treaty that would be signed in December by as many countries as possible.

▪ Although these communications are not legally binding, they do give member states strong guidance on legal and taxation issues.

▪ You must also sign a written contract and receive a copy of it for the contract to be legally binding.

▪ To make it legally binding the protocol requires ratification by countries with at least 55 % of the developed world's emissions.

▪ There were indications last week that Yeltsin had dropped his insistence that this be a legally binding document.

over

▪ Or he had been, had been silly, was bound over again?

▪ Two weeks later, he appeared in superior court for a preliminary hearing, and he was bound over for trial.

▪ The brothers, aged 24 and 27, agreed to be bound over after denying the offence.

▪ He was bound over to keep the peace by magistrates.

▪ Last year he was bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep.

▪ They were bound over to keep the peace.

▪ All the defendants were bound over for two years on a personal bail of £350 and some were also fined.

together

▪ Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus.

▪ The boats are made mostly of rice straw, woven and bound together.

▪ They could be bound together by the belief, found in Bacon, that religious controversies were an impediment to science.

▪ A.. The Democratic Party was an unnatural coalition, bound together only by the name Democrat.

▪ Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter's pound.

▪ I want to know what binds together your various personalities.

▪ Because we are bound together, although he doesn't see it that way, by our interest in Belinda.

▪ They had been bound together to make them easier to move.

▪ I also bound up with my brochure, a number of photographs; for I had taken two cameras abroad.

▪ These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.

▪ These are intimately bound up together, not least because of the way in which the marriage contract is defined.

▪ But they were important in their time, and their families were bound up with Fred Taylor all his life.

▪ According to a long and dominant tradition, the physical is bound up with the spatial.

▪ It was coming out too bound up in hurtful things.

▪ All these things were bound up together and by defying his father he was in effect abandoning them.

▪ Like that of Curgenven, his own rising professional career was bound up with a commitment to expansionist sanitary reform.

■ NOUN

agreement

▪ But no such agreement will be binding on third parties save to the extent that they have knowledge thereof.

▪ The agreement bound the country to a programme of land reform whose implementation would have cost billions of dollars.

▪ Only those who are party to an agreement are bound by the agreement.

contract

▪ However, in April, anyone taking out a new pension contract will be bound by the new rules.

▪ You must also sign a written contract and receive a copy of it for the contract to be legally binding.

▪ Where the receiver enters into a new contract this will be binding on the company.

▪ Any company doing federal contract work is absolutely bound by affirmative action requirements and equal employment laws to cover you.

▪ Hence social contracts may bind, not all members of a society, but members of some group within society.

▪ Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company.

▪ This had led to a lengthy series of negotiations over the sort of contracts which should bind printers in his new plant.

▪ The contract I signed legally binds the station as much as it does me.

court

▪ In any event, none binds this court.

▪ But the truth is that nothing binds the court except what the court says binds it.

▪ Decisions of the House of Lords are binding upon all other courts trying civil or criminal cases.

▪ Further, it is not binding on this court.

▪ But the state Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 140 contains a lifetime ban, a decision binding on federal courts.

▪ The decisions of this court are binding on all inferior courts trying civil or criminal cases, including divisional courts.

decision

▪ If the patient had the requisite capacity, they are bound by his decision.

▪ The Court of Appeal is bound by decisions of the House of Lords and by its own earlier decisions.

▪ In deciding appeals before them, SSATs are bound by decisions of the Commissioners.

▪ Why should the Court of Appeal be bound by its own decisions?

law

▪ But in almost all other matters, they were bound to a higher law.

member

▪ Under the Arab League Charter a resolution passed by a majority of votes was binding only on member states voting in favour.

▪ It aims at binding the members of the community together in a libidinal way as well and employs every means to that end.

▪ The scope of that Article was to bind member States to treaties concluded by the organisation, not contracts under municipal law.

▪ A Directive binds member states to certain specific objectives, but leaves them to implement the necessary measures through national laws.

▪ Hence social contracts may bind, not all members of a society, but members of some group within society.

▪ Aforementioned principles and provisions are binding on all Member State authorities, including the courts.

party

▪ Treaties bind consenting parties only, and strangers to any treaty are legally unaffected by it.

▪ But no such agreement will be binding on third parties save to the extent that they have knowledge thereof.

▪ The introduction to the heads will specify that the clause is binding on both parties and is not subject to contract.

▪ Statutory regulations binding on both parties required crawling boards to be used on fragile roofs.

▪ Article 34 of the Vienna Convention applies to itself so that like other treaties it can not bind third parties.

▪ His decisions are binding on both parties, subject only to the High Court on a point of law.

protein

▪ A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells.

▪ These compounds are lipid soluble and therefore highly protein bound in the plasma.

▪ Therefore although both proteins bind to the same site, the details of their structural interactions must differ.

▪ Elderly patients have decreased protein binding of AEDs resulting in a higher unbound fraction.

▪ Recombinant Oct-11 protein binds specifically to an octamer sequence invitro.

▪ The hope is that these peptides might compete with the virus proteins for binding to the receptor molecules.

▪ These differences help explain why these homologous proteins bind a variety of ligands with different affinities.

rule

▪ It may be too bound by rules and not allow individuals to exercise discretion within their work. 5.

▪ The electronic frontier requires its pioneers to be resourceful in defending themselves in the absence of binding rules and regulations.

▪ The social workers were bound by rules of confidentiality and legal requirements which prevented them from revealing any relevant information.

▪ However, in April, anyone taking out a new pension contract will be bound by the new rules.

▪ A new State is bound by the rules of customary international law in existence when it acquires Statehood.

▪ The exchange member will be bound by the rules to which he has consented.

▪ Bourges was a community in a vital sense, bound by rules of the inhabitants' own making.

▪ You weren't so bound by rules, legislation, case law or anything like that.

state

▪ Aforementioned principles and provisions are binding on all Member State authorities, including the courts.

▪ The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties.

treaty

▪ Thereafter they moved around the Balkans, sometimes in open war with the Romans, sometimes bound by treaty.

▪ The goal is to write a legally binding treaty that would be signed in December by as many countries as possible.

▪ The scope of that Article was to bind member States to treaties concluded by the organisation, not contracts under municipal law.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I'll be bound

a binding contract/promise/agreement etc

▪ An offer is something which is clearly intended if accepted to form a binding agreement.

▪ But Equitable was set on the Halifax deal and has signed a binding contract for the first half of its proposals.

▪ However, in many cases the parties may create a binding contract by agreement on the three matters already identified.

▪ If they can come to a binding agreement, the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years.

▪ In general there was the invocation of one or more deities to bear witness that a binding contract was being undertaken.

▪ It was held there that the parties had made a binding contract, albeit with the price still outstanding.

▪ The successful bidder is under a binding contract to purchase the relevant property.

be bound (by sth)

▪ It has a tourist potential which is bound to revive as the election images of intimidation fade.

▪ The whole compound was bound together with honey and raisins.

▪ There was bound to be some tension when he teamed with Marlon Brando for Guys and Dolls in 1955.

▪ They were bound for the very place where Odysseus had landed.

▪ Two weeks later, he appeared in superior court for a preliminary hearing, and he was bound over for trial.

▪ We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision, but you are not.

▪ Work inhibition is so frustrating to parents and teachers that they are bound to feel like exploding.

be bound (together) by sth

▪ The two groups were bound together by their hatred of the factory in which they worked.

▪ Decisions and actions are bound by precedent. 3.

▪ Furthermore, the nature of political authority in representative democracies means that governments are bound by doctrines of accountability.

▪ He was bound by golden handcuffs to the Salomon Brothers mortgage trading depart-ment.

▪ If the parties do not wish to be bound by time limits there should be none in the lease.

▪ The Martins too are bound by the same federal law and could be prosecuted.

▪ The political order is bound by values.

▪ The Revenue will not subsequently be bound by any information or statements given, whether expressly or implicitly in relation to the claim.

▪ They were bound by it so long as it was not in conflict with their statutory duty.

be bound to

▪ An election campaign between an incumbent president and a Senate majority leader is bound to be fought out in legislative jousting.

▪ But like everything online, it's a work in progress so is bound to get better.

▪ Even in these days of recession Warden Sparrow's books are bound to fetch a 6-figure sum at tomorrow's auction.

▪ Even so, the Peace of Paris of 1763 was bound to produce an immense number of acquisitions of territory for Britain.

▪ I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it.

▪ I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration.

▪ They would be bound to see such a use as virtual expropriation, without compensation.

▪ Women were bound to absolute obedience to their Promise Keeper husbands and fathers.

be bound up in sth

▪ Jim's too bound up in his own worries to be able to help us.

▪ The history of music is, of course, bound up with the development of musical instruments.

▪ All our limitations are bound up in our intellectual mind with its boundaries and imperfections and its tendency to emotional distortion.

▪ Although activists take on global economic and political issues, their affiliations, allegiances and loyalties are bound up in local communities.

▪ Extension cords that looked frayed or suspicious were bound up in Scotch cellophane tape.

▪ Moral and economic rights are bound up in the concept of copyright.

▪ More usually, the body was bound up in a folded position, with the knees under the chin.

▪ The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.

▪ These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.

be bound up with sth

▪ A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime.

▪ According to a long and dominant tradition, the physical is bound up with the spatial.

▪ But they were important in their time, and their families were bound up with Fred Taylor all his life.

▪ Human rights in general and the right to communicate in particular are bound up with the notion of democracy.

▪ It is bound up with the family as a whole.

▪ The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.

▪ This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality.

be inextricably linked/bound up/mixed etc

▪ For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.

▪ In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.

▪ It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.

▪ Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.

be/feel bound to do sth

▪ Even as she felt bound to her family, she felt a childish need to rebel.

▪ If you were married to me I wouldn't expect you to be bound to the house all day, every day.

▪ It had been a solemn and impressive ceremony and, whatever my uncertainties, I felt bound to respond.

▪ Just as, in writing, I think little men should be bound to mere journeyman work...

▪ She seemed unwilling to acknowledge that this might not be wise and would be bound to cause her parents concern.

▪ Some human would be bound to see you.

▪ They would be bound to see such a use as virtual expropriation, without compensation.

be/feel honour bound to do sth

▪ Don't you tell him either, because he'd feel honour bound to do something about it.

bound and determined

▪ Klein is bound and determined to win at least five races this year.

bound for London/Mexico etc

▪ That can often include a sneak preview of productions bound for London's West End.

homeward bound

▪ After months of travel, we were at last homeward bound.

▪ And then he's made it, horror shy, homeward bound.

▪ Day 16 Mombasa-London Depart Mombasa on a homeward bound flight, arriving in London early evening.

▪ Voice over Rob begins the homeward bound trip next week.

snow-bound/strike-bound/tradition-bound etc

tie/bind sb hand and foot

▪ We're bound hand and foot by all these safety regulations.

▪ Then, before she realised what was happening, he fastened her in the double stirrups, binding her hands and feet.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ He was found bound to a chair, barely alive.

▪ It was like being bound hand and foot to a torturer's chair.

▪ The hostages had been bound and gagged and left in a corner of the room.

▪ The hydrogen molecule binds with the oxygen molecule.

▪ The treaty binds the two countries to reduce the number of nuclear weapons.

▪ Use 2 tablespoons of water to bind the flour and butter mixture.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ The snakes multiplied, swarming over her, binding her more tightly to the chair.

▪ Wires upon wires wove around him, binding him to his amplifiers.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

double

▪ Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind.

▪ Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.

▪ This is not necessarily liberating: it may just be a double bind.

▪ Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind.

▪ But now division heads are in a double bind.

▪ Exactly the same double bind is encountered in any theorization of racial difference.

▪ Blot: That sounds as if you think we're caught in a double bind from which there's no escape.

▪ A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.